contrib/completion: "local var=()" is misinterpreted as func-decl by zsh

[git.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bf0d97ef769adda0066578c7823a124385785e94..6fa83fe2b85f2611fc0253a90b7b238bf74745b7 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ Issues of note:
        - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
          features (e.g. preparing a partial commit using "git add -i/-p",
          interacting with svn repositories with "git svn").  If you can
-         live without these, use NO_PERL.
+         live without these, use NO_PERL.  Note that recent releases of
+         Redhat/Fedora are reported to ship Perl binary package with some
+         core modules stripped away (see http://lwn.net/Articles/477234/),
+         so you might need to install additional packages other than Perl
+         itself, e.g. Time::HiRes.
 
        - "openssl" library is used by git-imap-send to use IMAP over SSL.
          If you don't need it, use NO_OPENSSL.
@@ -106,6 +110,18 @@ Issues of note:
          history graphically, and in git-gui.  If you don't want gitk or
          git-gui, you can use NO_TCLTK.
 
+       - A gettext library is used by default for localizing Git. The
+         primary target is GNU libintl, but the Solaris gettext
+         implementation also works.
+
+         We need a gettext.h on the system for C code, gettext.sh (or
+         Solaris gettext(1)) for shell scripts, and libintl-perl for Perl
+         programs.
+
+         Set NO_GETTEXT to disable localization support and make Git only
+         use English. Under autoconf the configure script will do this
+         automatically if it can't find libintl on the system.
+
  - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,
    but depending on your specific installation, you may not
    have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have